Author: halo@bungie.org

Bungie is offering to answer your questions about Halo 3 – stop by this thread on the Bungie.net forums and let ’em know what you’re confused about, they’ll answer as many as they can in Friday’s Weekly Update. Thanks, Lloyd Woodall. (Louis Wu 18:38:11 UTC)

The Escapist takes a long look at Saved Films, and how they can satisfy your urge to create. Beyond giving you access to fantastic moments of gameplay, they let you examine, in detail, aspects of the Halo universe you didn’t have time to appreciate while being shot. Coolness! Thanks, Pixellated. (Louis Wu 18:35:31 UTC)

I know, I know – I said no more Launch writeups. Two came in today, though, that are worth pointing out. Knuckles Dawson, who was at the Community Lock-In event last week, put together a video look at the madness that night for Xbox 360 Fanboy, and two Hushed Casket long-timers wrote up their experiences…

Web comics about Halo today – Penny Arcade revisits the little boy playing for Gabe (thanks, Jinno), and UserFriendly reminds you that rabid fanbois don’t like it when you say bad things about Halo… out loud.(Louis Wu 17:48:01 UTC)

Kotaku found a clip of some 95-year-old Japanese grandmother playing Halo 3. She’s not very good – but man, she’s 95. (Yes, Tex, she’s older than I am.)(Louis Wu 17:46:03 UTC)

A few days ago, we mentioned a South Carolina paper running a mission recap of Halo 3; we got mail from the writer who pointed out that he’s actually in North Carolina, and that the series is syndicated. The third mission is now online (I’ve picked the News & Observer, a paper local to him,…

Z pointed out a video showing a through-the-wall glitch on High Ground; looks like an easy way into the base!(Louis Wu 16:08:34 UTC)

MLG Anakin has posted Official MLG Halo 3 Gametypes and Settings, downloadable directly to your 360 – convenient! (Bookmark the page, because it’ll be updated if things change.) Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 16:06:01 UTC)

Sam Becker pointed out a post at Halo Easter Eggs – it describes a recreation of a Halo 1 easter egg in Halo 3. (mentioned earlier)(Louis Wu 16:04:18 UTC)

I didn’t post this yesterday, because I thought it was silly… but hey, we’ve posted silly before. Hawty McBloggy has put up an exhaustive guide to coordinating your armor colors in Halo 3. If you want to make sure you match, go read.(Louis Wu 16:01:54 UTC)

Steve Chamblin, of YourHalo3Vids.com, wants to offer a service to the community – if you’ve got a saved film you’d love turned into a video, you should visit. He’s willing to do this for you – at no cost. He has a few rules (as can probably be guessed), and asks that you be patient…

Lots and lots and lots of reviews in our inbox:Ars Technica continues their analysis of Halo – this one isn’t so much a review as it is a debate between editors (thanks, Jota Rota)Adelaide Now says it’s a 10/10 – a little short in Campaign, but more than makes up for it in Multiplayer.The Central…

Wow, weirdness. Back in January, Matt Casamassina, editor of IGNCube, discussed a port of Halo for the Nintendo DS. Nobody ever confirmed it, and the rumors eventually died away. Today, it seems he’s posted some videos of the game being played, to PROVE it’s real (and, he says, to convince someone to start development up…

So there’s clearly a market for custom-made action figures; we mentioned a sculpted one last week that still has 2 days to go – current bid is nearly at $2000. BARBARIC RAGE found ANOTHER one – this one (which is male) just went up, and still has nearly a week – but it’s a pretty…

Eddie, from Rookie Rabbit Productions, let us know that Episode 6 of the Spartan Effect has been posted on their site. We’ve put up local mirrors of the WMP9 and QuickTime hi-res versions, because they’re worried about Filefront links, and because this is a decent series. This will be the last episode built in Halo…

SarcasticGamer wrote a summary of the Halo 3 pieces they put up in the past week – there are some funny ones in there! (Louis Wu 17:41:42 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy had a nice writeup of some cool Halo faceplates for sale on eBay – check ’em out, you still have a couple of days to bid! (Do you remember the toilet seat she found a few days ago? Turns out, that guy also created an Elite engraved toilet seat, and Hawty was the…

Numbers are out for the first four days of sales in the UK – Halo 3 sold nearly half a million copies (in a country with 1.4 million 360s). It’s not the biggest seller ever in the UK (GTA San Andreas sold nearly 700,000 copies in 2 days), but it’s prety impressive! This information is…

GameDaily has a series of pictures of someone wearing a cardboard Master Chief face (I couldn’t see any eyeholes, so I can’t call it a mask), wandering around New York. Oddness! Thanks, Empress Cortana.(Louis Wu 17:20:22 UTC)

A 61-year-old Halo fan created some music inspired by the game literally minutes before he entered the hospital, and died. His son posted the music on a blog. Thanks to GamesBond007 for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:15:06 UTC)